CaseFireball1998
Edinburgh (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom
moved slowly in one direction, paused for 3/4 mins before turning 90 degrees and moving away from us.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-06
- Where
- Edinburgh (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 mins
- Geo
- 55.952, -3.196 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-edinburgh-uk-scotland-1998-998bc3
In context
- Edinburgh (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 53 reports came from United Kingdom in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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